anthropomorphous, a.
(-ˈmɔːfəs)
[f. Gr. ἀνθρωπόµορϕ-ος of human form (f. ἄνθρωπο-ς man + µορϕή form) + -ous.]
1. Of human form, having the form of a man.
| 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Naturalists give instances of Anthropomorphous plants, Anthropomorphous minerals, etc. 1819 B. Lawrence Man i. (1844) 88 Their [monkeys'] forms are so much like the human, as to have procured for them the epithet Anthropo-morphous. 1875 Lubbock Orig. Civil. vii. 345 The deities in this state are anthropomorphous. |
2. = anthropomorphic.
| 1858 Gladstone Homer II. 148 Every thing..is made to conform to anthropomorphous ideas. |